Yes I am a skinny “quirked up” white boy with long hair who grew up in sheltered white suburbia and smokes too much weed. Yes I am a college student who was introduced to communism online and rapidly became radicalized.
It’s such perfect ammo and it is ruining me
You are too powerful and society has attempted to hem in your strength by dehumanising you, making you feel ashamed, and convincing you that you are nothing more than a stereotype. If you weren’t a threat to them, they never would have bothered doing this in the first place.
Give that stereotype your hardest goddamn “Yes and…” and proudly say “Yes I fit the stereotype and I’m much more than that as well; if you are threatened by my stereotypicality, you can’t handle me at my full humanity.”
Chiming in to say I cherish every post & comment I see you make.
Longtime lurker, but now I get to say how empowering I find your thoughts!
That’s so kind of you to say. Glad to have you on board officially with your very own account.
If you’re interested I’ve soft-launched a little project that is basically an extension of a lot of what I do on here with regards to supporting positive mental health and neurodivergence. It’s a little online drop-in peer support space being held in a game called Webfishing. You can find out more about the project here and there’s information on how to be a part of it, if it’s something that you catches your interest. I’m actually prepping for the next session which is happening in a little under 9 hours from the time that this comment has been posted.
Thanks, Webfishing sounds neat. It looks like I just missed it, but that’s okay.
I’m becoming more conscious about security concerns lately, and some things are just too much effort to do securely. Sadly, Webfishing seems to be one of those things.
I’m using AirVPN and Mullvad Browser on Ubuntu, so if you have any OpSec tips or resources I’d be happy to read them! I’ve gotten a little paranoid since I worked a US MIC job (after becoming a communist, but I needed the money). I can’t believe they let me in, and the stress of being ‘found out’ for understanding how evil the empire was, along with the guilt of my participation in it as an office drone … was just too much.